List of professional wrestling styles

From Pro Wrestling

Types of professional wrestling:

American Wrestling

a game that can be played with normal rules.

Puroresu

Professional wrestling in Japan is commonly referred to as puroresu. The the word puroresu was made popular by Hisaharu Tanabe among the English speaking fans in the early 1990s through Usenet and online services. Quite different from professional wrestling in the United States, Puroresu is treated as a combat sport as it mixes martial arts with complex and dangerous submission moves and other types of wrestling. While it uses very few storylines or gimmicks, match outcomes are predetermined.

A special trend of Japenese wrestling is having barbed wire instead of ropes, have six sides of ropes instead of four, or may have explosives set on the boundaries, just to name a few. Some small, obscure independent promotions which rarely draw above 100 fans to its cards on average are so devoid of resources that they have to use amateur wrestling mats in place of an actual ring. Examples of these are Koki Kitahara's Capture International (shoot style) and Mr. Pogo's WWS.